Four Restaurants Will Sing for Your Supper : Clubs: Chanteuse Ruth Price will book jazz at Lunaria and Giorgio’s Place. Michael’s and Gaetano’s Atrium have the same idea.

Jazz is being added to the menus of four more Southland restaurants--Lunaria and Michael’s, both in Los Angeles, Giorgio’s Place in Long Beach and Gaetano’s Atrium in Woodland Hills.

Lunaria and Giorgio’s Place are being booked by singer Ruth Price, who is entering the business end of jazz for the first time.

Tuesdays through Sundays, the lounge at Lunaria (10351 Santa Monica Blvd., (213) 282-8870) will be home to many of the area’s top pianists. “I’m really thrilled with the people I have been able to get,” says Price, who, along with singers Pinky Winters, Stephanie Haynes and others, will also work the 60-seat room. Solo pianists--Chris Dawson and Arlette McCoy among them--will appear 6 to 9 p.m. (except Sundays), followed by featured artists, who’ll play 9 p.m. to midnight Tuesdays through Thursdays, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 6 to 11 p.m. Sundays. There is no cover charge.

The current lineup calls for the trio of pianist Lou Levy, bassist Monty Budwig and drummer Harold Mason, tonight and Saturday. Sunday it will be Budwig and pianist George Gaffney.

At Giorgio’s Place (located in the Arco Tower, 300 Ocean at Main St., Long Beach, (213 432-6175), the music, which started in early June, accompanies Mediterranean cuisine on Fridays and Saturdays 8:30 p.m.to 12:30 a.m. “It’s always three people, usually a singer plus piano and bass. Sometimes we’ll have a drummer, like Roy McCurdy, who worked there last week,” says Price. Singer Mike Campbell joins pianist Tom Garvin and bassist John Heard tonight and Saturday. The room, which seats about 100, charges no cover.

As much as she loves giving her musical friends work, Price says she wouldn’t do all this backstage stuff if it didn’t give her the chance to toot her own horn. “Nope, I wouldn’t do this if I couldn’t sing,” she says.

Price, a native Philadelphian, remembers such early highlights as singing with pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones in the City of Brotherly Love, touring with Charles Mingus (in a band that included altoman Jackie McLean, who opens a week’s stand at Catalina Bar & Grill Tuesday) and singing with drummer Shelly Manne at his Manne-Hole in Hollywood. She says she’s working as much now as she did in the mid-’60s. “I don’t know why this is happening at this point in my life, but I’m not arguing,” Price laughs.

At Gaetano’s Atrium (6336 Canoga Ave., Woodland Hills, (818) 596-5974), improvised sounds run the gamut from middle-of-the-road to jazz/pop fusion. Music, which has been on tap since the first of July, is played Tuesdays through Thursdays between 8:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. and Sundays, 4 to 10 p.m. The schedule includes Chuck Rowan’s trio tonight and Saturday and a jam session on Sunday. Cover charge averages about $5.

Also adding jazz is Michael’s (4500 Los Feliz Blvd., (213) 665-1181), where the ubiquitous pianist/singer Karen Hernandez (she’s also working J.P.’s in Burbank, among others) is set for a string of Mondays. Even though Hernandez’ debut on Monday was all but unannounced, a fair-sized crowd turned out to greet her. “We had a great Monday, and I hope I can motivate the owners to go with a jazz policy all week,” says Fred Baker, who books the talent. Hernandez’ Monday date at Michael’s runs from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., and there’s no cover.

NAWBO HONORS GIBBS: Actress/community activist Marla Gibbs, who owns Marla’s Memory Lane Supper Club, a well-known Los Angeles jazz room, has been selected as the Celebrity Business Woman of the Year by the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). Gibbs will be honored at an awards banquet at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City Saturday. Information: (213) 277-2000, ask for NAWBO.

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